Cadwell Park 31 August - Today I clinched the National Superstock 1000 title by taking victory in race number 9 of the season. My closest rival in the Championship, Steve Brogan, crashed out which left me with a big enough points gap to take the title with 3 races left to go.

Brands Hatch 9 August - I have won race 8 out of 8 of the superstock championship. Had a great start and took the lead and then unfortunately the race was red flagged. Got back on pole for the restart and got away in front and stayed there until the race was red flagged again. The race was declared a result.

Kirkistown ISB 14 July - I have won both Superbike races on the Superstock GSXR 1000 K9 and set a new lap record.

Knockhill 5 July - I have won both races at Knockhill and have set a new lap record of 50

The team set a plan to get to the front early and lead throughout. Brogan set a blistering pace in the opening laps of race two but I hung in there, and when he tired in the closing stages I got to the front and pulled the pin. The 2009 GSX–R1000 had more steam up through the start and finish, so I just put my head down and got on with it. It’s pleasing to win at Knockhill and more pleasing to get another couple of wins for Suzuki, Relentless and all our sponsors.

PRESS RELEASE  22/04/2009 - Parting Company with JMF

In the 2008 Superstock class of the British Superbike series Alastair Seeley rode an R1 Yamaha machine into fourth spot for sponsor Rea Estates while at home in Ireland he rode the JMF Millsport Yamahas winning the North West 200 and Mondello Masters events. As well as North West Superstock win he was also on the podium twice in the Supersport class finishing second to Steve Plater on both occasions.

In its short history JMF Millsport has been essentially a pure road racing team but wanted one of Ireland's best riders on their bikes so persuaded Seeley to ride their bikes at all his events in 2009 and as a result Seeley's sponsors Rea Estates, William Watt Cars Sales, DB Tiles,Northern Lift, Slemish Water, Knox, Arai, Berik and Arlen Ness all agreed to join forces with JMF Millsport to provide bikes for the prestigious British Superstock series and Ireland's premier event, the North West 200 as well as the Mondello Masters series.

However, JMF Millsport have now decided they don't want to be traveling to England for the BSB series and want to concentrate on the road races and are in talks with American rider Jimmy Moore. After winning the first round of the Superstock championship at Brands Hatch Seeley has been working hard trying to find another Yamaha in time for second round at Oulton Park on the 4th of May. The problem lies with the supply of the new Yamahas because they are only just starting to arrive into the country and are all spoken for. Two bikes were ear marked for Seeley by Yamaha UK but these have been delivered to JMF Millsport, now not racing in England, leaving him with an uphill battle to find something to ride at Oulton Park consequently is having to consider Suzuki or Honda
machinery because of the difficulty in getting the much sought after Yamaha R1.

Seeley said “Its very disappointing for this to happen especially after having such a good start to the BSB season. JMF wanted me to ride under their banner all year so I abandoned my own team from last year to ride for them and now I have to rebuild that team in such a short space of time. It isn't an impossible task and am working at it because I don't want to let anyone down and I do feel my sponsors have been let down, they are more disappointed than me at the moment with the way things have turned out.”

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As always, if you or anyone you know would like to become a sponsor and be part of the team feel free to contact me on 07756406798 or 02893 351365 or email me at alastair@alastairseeleyracing.co.uk or alastairseeley9@hotmail.co.uk

Interview with Maurice Montgomery - Fotobikes

Carricks Alastair Seeley won the opening round of the big money Mondello Masters series last Sunday. Riding the Millsport R1 Yamaha the local rider came 6th at the end of the opening lap to pass race leader Declan Swanton two laps from the end of the ten lapper to win by over seven seconds. “The main reason for going to Mondello was for the masters and now that I have won the opening round I can go to round two with confidence and maybe even win all three as there is a good bonus paid to anyone who can win the lot. The Masters race was a tricky one as the track was wet after a heavy shower just before they called us to the line. I went out with wets front and rear but after the sighting lap I noticed that the sun had came out and the track was drying fast. While they were doing the interviews on the line I made a last minute decision to change to a dry tyre on the rear. When the starting lights went out the rear spun up and I lost a lot of ground to the leaders off the line. My Millsport Yamaha however was going really well and I took it easy on the damp parts and went quick on the dry parts in the early stages and soon made up the time on the front men . With two laps to go I had the leader, Swanton, in my sights, got passed him and by the chequered flag had pulled out seven and a half seconds. My fastest lap was less than half a second slower than my fastest ever around Mondello and that was on a full blown superbike, so I am happy with the bike, the same one I will use at the NW 200”. Commented a happy Alastair. At the same meeting Alastair raced in three superbike races. After qualifying 13th , a disappointing result for the local rider he changed from Dunlop to Pirelli tyres. “I couldn’t get to grips with them. They felt really hard and I couldn’t get them to work so I changed to the Pirelli’s and got on fine with them”. In the first superbike race on Saturday he finished second on a dry track only half a second behind race winner Gary Johnston on the Uel Duncan Fireblade Honda. The second superbike race was on Sunday morning and he again took second this time behind Brian McCormick after passing Jack Kennedy two corners from the finish. “I had the speed in the dry but not enough laps to make up for my disappointing grid position. Still I had the fastest lap in both races”. In his third superbike outing he took sixth. “With the Masters my next race I did not want to take any chances in the slippery conditions”.

November 2009 - I will be going to Australia in early November to take part in the Kings of Wanneroo International at Barbagallo Raceway Wanneroo on November 7, 8 and 9.  Please click this link to see more information.

18 October - It was the ISB round and Sunflower meeting at Bishopscourt this weekend where I finished 2nd in the first race, slipped off in the Sunflower race and won the last race which means that I have won the Irish Superbike Championship.

3-4 October - I have been at Mondello this weekend and have won 3 Irish Superbike rounds and the Mondello Masters race. I have also managed to set a new lap record of 52.7s.